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touch

23 Kiribati words

• aebai
  • Sabatier to touch with hands.
  • Sabatier touch.
• korowa
  • Sabatier to touch, to graze, to make allusion to.
• tabetea
  • Sabatier to touch, to work, to do lightly, to glide over.
• bo
  • Sabatier to hit, to thump, to knock, to touch, to hurt, to get hit.
  • Sabatier bo, bobo, bo ma: to be in contact, to touch, to meet, to fight with or against.
• betoko
  • Sabatier 2. to touch indecently.
• auau
  • Sabatier impure contact or touch.
• kamena
  • Sabatier mena, kamena: to touch.
• ninia
  • Sabatier to make impression, to touch.
• ringa
  • Bingham to feel of, to handle, to touch.
• ring
  • Sabatier te riring: touch, sense of touch.
• baitererei
  • Sabatier to touch or take with tips of fingers.
• tukura
  • Bingham to stop at a place, as a canoe, to touch at.
• baitangauri
  • Sabatier idem. baitangauria: to touch, handle with fingertips.
• karekebai
  • Sabatier to hold by hand, to touch hands or fingers, or tips of wings, to join up.
• botam
  • Sabatier botamia: to do a work gently, delicately, to touch or handle in a superficial way.
• tiritabuki
  • Sabatier v.t. tiritabunga, tiritoa: to make flat and to graze over, to touch slightly in passing.
• uere
  • Sabatier (hair standing up) emotion, shudder, shuddering with emotion,... fear, very touched, moved.
• korotua
  • Sabatier to touch slightly, to graze, to pass beside, over or under, touching slightly (as keel of canoe on reef).
• katuatua
  • Sabatier to make bounce, to skim over, to touch slightly several times in passing (ex. outrigger on crest of waves).
• baikuikui
  • Bingham afraid to handle or touch: hesitating to throw lest failing to hit, or in fear of hitting one standing near.
• toko
  • Sabatier katokoa, katokotokoa, katotokoa: to make touch, to come to the end, to be at the end, to apply the end to..., to put at end.
• teke
  • Sabatier teteke, teketeke: hit, struck, pierced, punctured, hit or struck by a shot, beaten by a rival, reached, touched, wounded, pricked.
• teke ua tabo
  • Sabatier katekea, katetekea, kateketekea: to hit, to touch, to win, to prick, to pierce, to transpierce, to aim at, to point at, to steer to.